# Making Show Boat: Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II & the Power of Performers

Part of the American Musicological Society-Library of Congress lecture series, musicologist Todd Decker discusses his research into the creation of the hit Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II musical "Show Boat." Decker's research was principally conducted in the Kern and Hammerstein collections in the Music Division.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2013
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689053/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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